

<p class="title" align="center">Triangle Java Users Group Presents:</p>
<p class="header4" align="center">Interop is All!</p>
<p class="header4" align="center"><span align="center" class="header3">presented
  by Sam Ruby</span></p>

<p align="center"><b>Monday, February 17, 2003 </b><br>
  <b>6:30 PM - 9:00 PM</b> <br>
  <b>MCNC Auditorium</b> <br>
  3021 Cornwallis Road <br>
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina</p>


<p><span class="header2">Abstract:</span><br>
<ul>
   <li>Show how you probably learned SOAP<br>
   <li>Show how SOAP should be taught<br>
   <li>Apply this knowledge<br>
   <li>Explore the implications<br>
   <li>Conclusions<br>
</ul>
</p>

<p><span class="header2">About the Speaker:</span><br>

 Sam is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies group at
 IBM and is involved in a host of open source initiatives. He is a member of the
 Board of Directors and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation and a
 developer on the Apache Soap project. He is also the chairman of the Jakarta
 project, who's mission is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based
 on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion. He is a
 member of the XML PMC, an member of ECMA TC39 group standardizing the Common
 Language Infrastructure (CLI) for the .NET Framework. He is also a member of
 the PHP group, a select group of developers who contribute to core PHP. Sam
 holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Math from Christopher Newport College

</p>

<span class="header2">Agenda:</span><br>
6:30 - 7:00 PM -- Meet, Talk, Snacks <br>
7:00 - 7:15 -- JUG Business and Announcements <br>
7:15 - 8:15 -- Presentation <br>
8:15 - 8:30 -- Discussion with Presenter <br>
9:00 - Doors close <br>

<br>


<p><span class="header2">Admission:</span><br>
Paid-up members of TriJUG may attend without additional charge.
Non members are asked to pay $5 per meeting. But, if you are either a full time
student or unemployed, then we ask only $2 per meeting.</p>


<p><span class="header2">DIRECTIONS to MCNC:</span><br>
<b>From Raleigh:</b><br>
Take I-40 West toward Durham and Chapel Hill. You will enter RTP. Where I-40 splits,
bear right onto the Durham Freeway North (Highway 147). Take the Cornwallis Road Exit.
At the end of the exit ramp, bear right - cross back over the Freeway. MCNC is located
approximately 3/4 mile on the right.</p>


<p><b>From Durham:</b><br>
Get on the Durham Freeway South (Highway 147). Take the Cornwallis Road exit.
At the end of the ramp, bear right - MCNC is approximately 3/4 mile on right. </p>

<p align="center">Click here for <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/directions.html">map with
directions</a>, or visit the <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/">MCNC web site</a>.</p>

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